the decision. when they make an action they are driven by profit. in general we all know that businesses are driven by profit. that s a general fact we all understand. in the book i take it the step down further and show managers are driven by profit and that s often different than what the company s motivations are. the employees under them are also driven by profit. and then i move it from there. most of us understand business. as we take down the profit motive and look into other sectors. i look at government. a 28-year-old bureaucrat sitting at a desk might not always have the best intentions of the country on his mind when he is sitting at the desk. sometimes he wants to get off work and go with his friends. maybe he wants to go on a date. maybe he wants to move up in the bureaucracy himself. the guy sitting at the desk in government has motivations, those don t often go exactly what the program is working for. it also works in media and it also applies to family life. e
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the author in the name in the search bar at the top of the page. book tv continues now. television. i m a syndicated columnist. you may have seen me previously on the club s week-to-week program. thus i m pleased to be here today to discuss john mcwhorter s book, woke racism, inspiring debates for insightful critiques of critical race theory and antiracism. john is a regular columnist for the new york times, and the author of several books on linguistics and an associate professor at columbia university. john, welcome to the commonwealth club for today s discussion on your new book. if you have any questions for john or me, put them on the you tube chat feature. they ll be forwarded during the program. john, let s begin. i love the book. it never got boring. and it made me think about the world in a new way. so before i drill down, tell us, why did you write the book, what s it about, and what do people who really really don t like your viewpoint say about it, and how do
i believe the power of corporate america, the power of wall street, the power of the drug companies, the power of the corporate media is so great, that the only way we really transform america and do the things that the middle-class and working-class desperately need is through a political revolution when millions of people begin to come together and stand up and say, our government is going to work for all of us, not just a handful of billionaires. amy: we will spend the hour airing highlights from the debate and speak to a roundtable of guests. green party presidential candidate jill stein, pulitzer prize winning journalist les payne, author d watkins and zaid jilani of alternet. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. five democratic presidential candidates faced off tuesday night in the first of six debates in the 2016 campaign. the participants were former secretary of state hillary clinton, v